Ontario Teams in Jeopardy for 2012/2013?

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Many Ontario Elementary and High schools have been having student walkouts in protest of the teachers taking away their extra-curriculars.

Effective? I'm not sure, but the media are sure having a field day with it all. The teachers and Queen's Park can't stay at odds forever if the students are going to keep walking out.

While ordinarily I'd say students walking out is a bad idea—mainly because it wouldn't ordinarily end well for the students—the recent Quebec student strike has primed the media and the populace with the rather extraordinary concept that students are empowered to take matters into their own hands and be heard loudly.

So I think it will be reasonably effective. Dalton McGuinty saw what happened to Jean Charest and doesn't want to be next.<sup>1

1</sup> McGuinty is the premier of Ontario, leading a minority government; Charest is the former premier of Quebec, who lost his own seat in the legislature, and whose party lost the recent election, in large part as a result of discontent with his handling of the Quebec student strike.